This appears to be the problem: http://www.mail-archive.com/rhelv5-l...@redhat.com/msg01527.html
More when I know it, clearly only for the sake of the mailing list archives and others trying to solve the same problem. Jeff Blaine wrote: > RHELv5 with kernel 2.6.18-53 > > SSH publickey authentication is failing for our users with > automounted home directories because the mount (/home/joe) > is expired and unmounted and sshd tries to find > /home/joe/.ssh/authorized_keys > > If we 'cd /home/joe' every minute on the sshd host, > the mount is retained and publickey auth works every > time. > > What are we doing wrong? Surely this should work without > hackery to keep the share mounted. > > _______________________________________________ > autofs mailing list > autofs@linux.kernel.org > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs > _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs